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The way I see it, Paul was willing to take a huge gamble on this company from the outset because of a strong gut feeling. Y Combinator didn't have to let them in and was being incr…

Sorry, I'm nerdy but I guess not nerdy enough to be in on the joke. Could someone explain it to me? I'm "the business guy" in my startup, though I'm actually a girl.

This is indeed great news, but I can't believe what CN has done to this company. Well, I actually can because I worked at CN for 4 years and saw extremely little investment in long…

100% on board with this comment. A dose of humility is something lacking at the top of a lot of companies who wonder why they can't seem to hold onto their talent. Give your employ…

That's great to hear. A company that is so confident in what its doing and its hires, that it trusts and encourages them to expand their skill set and degree of influence.

I thought this article was going to be about the controversial theory of crowdsourcing in the wider sense--not just design. With these deceiving headlines, you attract a lot of peo…

Are you talking about the fact that it's CHARGING people to VALIDATE your idea? I get what they're trying to do, and I was actually on board for the first three points. But then I …

This after the About.me buy. I'm excited to see how this reinvention pans out.

I'm creating a product that hopefully fills this void. A casual, non-committal way to show someone you'd like to get to know them better--without all the noise. I'm also a girl, so…

"The current popularity of facebook is also inherently causing a lot of people to stop sharing their personal lives on facebook." This is troubling to me. I feel like I'm looking a…

Thanks, and interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose the fact that I didn't even know I could do that--and that it's actually quite easy, functionally, as you say--also sug…

A friend and I just had a discussion about this last night. I can't say I've bothered to do it, but she says she just adjusts her privacy filter so that everyone in her company net…

I know it's been 10 hours, but can I just say thank you? I left a random musing as a comment and signed off, and someone took the time and liberty to personally address it. One of …

I wish someone had introduced me to code at 10-years-old. I had computer lab, but we just practiced Mavis Teaches Typing and played Oregon Trail. The closest I ever got to this was…

If you look at her bio, you'll see this author already has a new job at a startup called Pulse. Somehow that dampens this act of bravery for me. For all the upvotes she's gotten, t…

One of the funnier things I've read in a long time. Thanks.

I didn't think the author was whining at all--quite the opposite. Whiners endlessly complain about what's wrong and never posit a solution. Mr. Dilbert has quite a few solutions he…

Disclaimer: I am poor.

My "bad" thought: The rich work hard because they're running out of time. The poor work less because they have too much time to waste.

Lots of gems in here. My favorite line: "They also know that any project can get by with 10% less money if there is no alternative." The world would be a much better place if there…

I think it will only separate the men from the mice.

I nodded vigorously through every sentence of your comment. Well done, and good to see you're a computer scientist and didn't have to rely on jargon to make your point.

I know I get serious "presentation anxiety" when confronted with the challenge of with filling out my profile on a dating site. If women are more susceptible to this kind of malais…

No worries, I'm just happy to hear it registered with someone else. There's a much bigger goal here than Karma points :)

"I wanted to do x, but no one would hire me even though I was capable because I didn’t have sufficient experience in x on my resume." I definitely identify with this line. I'm a 27…